Friday, August 28, 2015

Does anyone remember this place? I have the strangest recollection of
going to this video arcade when it still had two of the oddest
attractions I have ever seen - EVER.... One "game" was actually a live
chicken in a box, who for a quarter would either pick your fortune or
give you redeemable tickets (I can't remember exactly what it did) - and
even more bizarre than THAT was in the back of this place... you'd drop
a quarter in the wall and (sort of like a peepshow booth) a plastic
window would rise up, exposing a glass one behind it, where you would
peer down, literally into the basement, and see an actual life-size
mechanical dragon!! As I recall it would move it's head and it's tail,
(and perhaps it's wings?) and you'd hear the blaring soundtrack of some
old Godzilla movie - that infamous Godzilla screech!! I remember getting
up close to the glass, hoping to see more of the dragon - but the only
extra surprises that revealed themselves were some boxes and a wash bucket with a
mop in it - which no doubt were NOT intended as part of the illusion! I
remember going back some years later and both the live chicken (probably
due to PETA) and the dragon peep show were GONE... today I'm not even
sure if the rest of this crowded little arcade is even still there
anymore, but without the chicken and dragon it wouldn't be the same
anyway.......

Saturday, August 15, 2015

Once again, finding inspiration whilst surfing through our music page, Daisy House did yet another cover version! Back in June, you might've heard, they did a great version of Dan's "Willow" - and THIS time around they've undertaken an even MORE impressive feat by taking "Superman" (which only lasts about 34 seconds) and created a trippy, beautifully harmonic blanket of sound lasting 2 minutes and 22 seconds! A nice surprise to us was some great harmonies they added - very reminiscent of the Mama's and Papa's!

For the full effect of illustrating just how Daisy House can take a tiny germ of a tune and grow it into something brilliant, just listen to our snippet first...

Dan was eager to tell me the news, "Doug Daisy did it again, they covered "Like A Superman",
It's awesome. He filled in the other melody that was missing and added a Mama &
Papas feel - plus he used the backwards parts as the key to the song more
than once which was your idea in the first place when you did that
backwards demo for me... so technically all 3 of us wrote this song, take a listen, it's a hit , Ha Ha!!!"

Just 10 or 12 more songs and they can put out an entire "Daisy House sings The Out Of Bodies!" album - like Harry Nilsson did with a mostly yet-to-be discovered Randy Newman! Wouldn't THAT be somethin'!!

ADDED Aug 16, 2015: For those of you who've asked on Facebook who Daisy House is, it's a LOT easier to just direct you all back here to the OOB Blog, where you can read an interview with Doug Hammond of Daisy House right here...